Industrial Robot: Volume 16 Issue 2

Laser cuts tooling boards for wiring assemblies

RISTS and CROCUS collaborate to design and develop a machine to manufacture tooling boards for wiring assemblies. Brian Rooks investigates.

Robots future could be sealed up

David P. Dempster

According to experts at CRSM robots could soon be working in either a vacuum chamber on Earth or in the vacuum of outer space.

Help Mate: a service robot for health care

J. Evans, B. Krishnamurthy, W. Pong, S. King, C. Weiman, G. Bogardus, T. Skewis, B. Barrows

How one research company is helping overcome the problem of hospital staff shortages.

French robot applications: auto industry domination?

14.5% more robots were installed in France during 1988 than during 1987 but the automobile industry remains the major sector user. Anna Kochan reports.

Laser cuts a dash

Laser cutting of small stainless steel batches in 3‐D became economic at Darchem Engineering when a 250 W Nd‐YAG laser beam was carried to the cutting head on an articulated robot…

Robotic welding goes the FMS route

Over 15 years of experience has helped ESAB develop its flexible manufacturing weld station.

Not just an ‘Underwater JCB’

Clive Loughlin looks at the application and working environment for the Slingsby robot arm manipulators.

Optimism prevails in Japanese research

Stephen McClelland reviews the latest Japanese robot research and development and unearths a few surprises.

Getting to grips with order picking

Klaus Baumeister

Researchers at IPA have designed an order‐picking robot with an intelligent multi‐part gripper